Primary Schooling News Today

Australia’s teachers are predominantly Australian-born, female, and non-Indigenous. Most hail from middle-class backgrounds with urban upbringings, and are less likely to have disabilities.

You stayed up all night to make a Book Week costume – but now your child won’t wear it. In fact they don’t want to go at all. Here are some ideas to try.

As we take a short editorial break for the summer, we looked back at our most viewed blogs from the past year. It’s no surprise that many of our most viewed blogs addressed the global learning crisis stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic and measures to help get children back in school and catch up on lost learning. Others examined reforms to provide free primary education in DRC, school leadership and technology for teacher professional development.

The number of content descriptions of what teachers should teach and what students should learn has been cut by 21%. In primary school geography, 50% of these descriptions have gone or been reduced.

Back in school at 98, Kenyan woman sets example for next generation